Annie E. Clark Quotes

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.